Everything!

In Chronological Order

Peas and Paneer

So I’m back from Kolkata or Calcutta, as it used to be and will ever be for some, like me. It was a crowded trip, with remembrance services, weddings, school and college reunions interspersed with sporadic maintenance shopping. ( I’ll have to explain that some other day, that “maintenance” thing.) …Continue reading→

2014 : The Year

Another year older and a new one almost begun. So what did 2014 bring? It brought memories, travel to far off lands, some momentous events into the lives ( or life ) of the blog contributors or contributor. Let’s review the happenings. We heard a third party perspective on how…Continue reading→

Pride in your Post

Notes to you. < some may get it, some may not. I don’t really care either way > There are things called articles. Like “a”, “the”. Use them. There are things called collective nouns. They don’t have plurals. “Computer code”, “apparel”, “hardware”, “software”. Commas are useful things, if used properly,…Continue reading→

Sex and Marriage

So recently, some female author, trying to flog her book, sponsored a debate on premarital sex. Briefly, she asked, Yes or No. Of course the usual pseudo social activists were quick to jump in with both feet condemning with many references to cultural heritage, some faux religious mumbo jumbo and…Continue reading→

Eggplant Mash

Introduction Introductions may be in order since I have at least 1 reader in 3 different continents. So. An eggplant is called Baingan – Hindi Begun – Bengali Brinjal – most of India Aubergine – elsewhere in the world Eggplant – in North America Melanzana – Italian and hence Mad…Continue reading→